Author: gerold daniels
Date: 19:26:07 06/16/05
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On June 16, 2005 at 18:12:55, Madhavan wrote: >On June 16, 2005 at 17:36:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote: > >>Hello all >> >>I would like to get help and opinions regarding the design of a large >>all-play-all tournament that I intend to launch. > >Great! > >>At first sight, I intend to invite the following free engines : >>- Fruit Massy 2005 >>- Fruit 2.0 >>- TogaII 0.93 >>- ProDeo 1.1 >>- Spike 0.9a >>- SlowChess WV blitz >>- Zappa 1.0 >>- Aristarch 4.5 >>- Anmon Massy 5.5.3 >>- List 512 UCI >>- Pharaon 3.2 >>- SOS 5.1 >>- Ruffian 1.05 >> >>First question : Did I miss some strong free engine ? > >yes,Yace and Crafty. >but they are less weaker engine. > >>According to what I have at home, I will also include a few commercial engines >>in the tournament : >> >>Surely : >>DeepShredder 9 UCI >>Shredder 7.04 UCI >>Chessmaster 10K > >you can use Shredder 9 instead which perform quite better than eep version which >is designed for multi processor. > >>Possibly : >>Ruffian 2.1.0 >>Gandalf 6.0 >>Deep Sjeng 1.6 > >If you are going to use Ruffian 2.1.0,then It's better to remove Ruffian 1.05 >from the test.the free engine will not show any surprising result as it is old >and outdated. > ruffian 1.05 is still in the top 5 free engines. >>Second question : are there special parameters that you consider optimal for one >>ar another of these engines at this kind of playing rate ? Particularly, is >>there a clearly superior personality for CM10 and for ProDeo in these >>conditions? at first sight, I intend to use Milan 2.3 or Berean 5.53 for CM 10 >>and default personality for ProDeo. > >Maybe you should ask Graham before selecting any chessmaster personality. > >>Other conditions will be : >> >>- the neutral book will be based on strong correspondence games : we should see >>some quite unusual openings >>- 256 or 512 MB hash (I did not yet decide) >>- ponder off, no tablebase > >what opening book do you use for List and Fruit? > >>Most matches will be played on a Dell Inspiron 9200 (centrino2 2 Ghz) with 2048 >>MB ram. Some will be played on a Intel PIV 3.0 Ghz (1024 MB ram). >> >>Third question : both PCs have almost identical results at crafty 17.14 >>benchmark test. Is this enough to be sure that playing conditions will be quite >>similar ? > >yes. > >>Fouth question : >>Any suggestion ? > >I'd like to see the AXON bench mark result of the first hardware.Axon benchmark >is available for free and can be downloaded here:www.playwitharena.com under >download section. > >>Thanks all for comments >> >>Marc >> >>P.S. >>If you find it interesting I could post the games here... > be very happy if you would post the games here . i to would like to see long time controls. fast games don,t prove much. gerold. >Thanks.
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